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giving his Body a fudden Shock, he found 
he had hurt his Left Side under the Short 
Ribs, at every Step fomething pricked that 
Side, In a little Time his Grief fpread up-* 
wards, and downwards to his Thigh, the 
Skin being grown dull and almoft fenfelefs. 
Six Years after that, as he was walking 
over the Houfe Floor, by making fuch an- 
other falfe Step, the fame Pain as above 
feized him in his Left Breaft. He then 
applied to an ingenious Apothecary, who 
told him the Cafe was defperate, for he 
had broke one of the ftrongeft Nerves 
which could never be reunited again. Now 
he was laid wholly afide from Bufinefs, and 
fent for another Practitioner, who ordered 
him to Buxton and Matlock , but thefe did 
nothing for him. In a Year and a half after 
he loft his Speech, his Pain being fo intolera- 
ble, he could not bear moving thefe Organs, 
nor could he eat, or move his Head any 
way, but when fet down or laid, was for- 
ced to continue immoveable like a Log, 
His firft DoCtor being fent for, faid he could 
not pofiibly live a Week, It being now up- 
wards of two Years fince the laft Accident, 
the Spring following he was confined clofe 
to Bed, and after twelve Weeks lying, he 
was 
